Come out of Her My People
By
James Scott Trimm
Believers are given a great warning in the Book of Revelation:
1
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven,
having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold
of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,
and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
(Revelation 18:1-4 KJV)
But who is Babylon? Paul gives us a clue in a parallel verse:
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the
temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and
walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
(2Cor. 6:14-18 KJV)
The word translated “unrighteousness” by the KJV is in the Greek ANOMIA a form of the Greek word ANOMOS. The Greek prefix A- meas “without” and the Greek word NOMOS means “Torah”, thus ANOMOS means “without Torah. This means the definitive characteristic of Babylon, is that Babylon has forsaken the Torah. Babylon teaches that the Torah is not for today. Christendom is modern Babylon, keeping pagan Babylonian holidays and customs and teaching that the law is not for today.
Notice Revelation says “Come out of her, my people” (Rev. 18:4) and Paul says “they shall be my people” (2Cor. 6:16). This phrase “my people” is a key to the very nature of this calling out:
24 (2:22) And the earth shall respond to the grain, and the wine, and the oil–and they shall respond to Yizre’el.
25 (2:23) And I will sow her unto Me in the land, and I will have
compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion. And I will say to
them that were not My people: You are My people, and they shall say, You are my Elohim.
(Hosea 2:24-35 (2:22-23) HRV)
This passage from Hosea brings us to a most overlooked thread of prophecy, that of the ultimate restoration of the House of Israel.
The name Yizre’el (Jezreel in the KJV) is the key to this overlooked thread. In Hosea 1:4 Hosea’s wife bears a son and
YHWH
names the son “Yizre’el”. Throughout Hosea the names of Hosea’s sons
had special prophetic meaning. The name “Yizre’el” is a word play on
“Yisra’el” (Israel) but has the maning “El sows” or “El scatters”:
4 And YHWH said unto him: Call his name Yizre’el, for yet a little while
and I will visit the blood of Yizre’el upon the house of Yahu, and will
cause to cease–the kingdom of the House of Yisra’el.
(Hosea 1:4 HRV)
The prophetic meaning of this name is revealed in Hosea chapter 2 where Elohim scatters Yisra’el.
At this point it is absolutely essential to distinguish the two houses of Israel in this book. In these first two chapters of Hosea it is clear that it is not the House of Judah who are facing this chastisement. In fact Hosea specifies that while he is punishing the House of Israel, He will have compassion on the House of Judah:
7 But I will have compassion upon the House of Y’hudah, and will save them by YHWH their Elohim: and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor
by horses, nor by horsemen.
(Hosea 1:7 HRV)
By contrast the House of Israel will lose their identity as the people of YHWH. His second and third sons are named “Lo-Ruchmah” (“not compassioned”) and “Lo-Ammi” (“Not My People”).
Finally YHWH tells us that at a time when the number of the descendants of Israel is as the “as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered.” (Hosea 2:1 (1:10)) that this group known as Lo-Ammi “Not My People” will come to be known as “Sons of the Living El.”
In other words these people would realize that they are not Gentiles after all, but members or the Ten Lost Tribes.
We read a beautiful prophecy about this restoration in the Apocrypha in the book of Baruch:
… but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
And shall know that I am YHWH their Elohim: for I will give them a
heart, and ears to hear: And they shall praise me in the land of their
captivity, and shall remember my name, And return from their stiff neck,
and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their
fathers, which sinned before YHWH. And I will bring them again into
the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Avraham,
Yitzchak, and Ya’akov, and they shall be masters of it: and I will
increase them, and they shall not be diminished. And I will make an
everlasting covenant with them to be their Elohim, and they shall be
my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the
land that I have given them.
(Barukh (Baruch) 2:30-35)
It should be noted that the second half of this prophecy occurs at the time of the return of Messiah:
…And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath
unto their fathers, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya’akov, and they shall be
masters of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be
diminished. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be
their Elohim, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
(Barukh (Baruch) 2:30-35)
This is clearly an even that takes place at the Return of Messiah, as we see in Isaiah 11:12 as it is cited in Matthew 24:30-31:
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
(Isaiah 11:12 KJV)
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then
shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of
man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
(Matt. 24:30-31 KJV)
But the first part of Barukh’s prophecy takes place before this Messianic regathering to the land, while much of Israel is still “in the land of their captivities:
… but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
And shall know that I am YHWH their Elohim: for I will give them a
heart, and ears to hear: And they shall praise me in the land of their
captivity, and shall remember my name, And return from their stiff neck,
and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their
fathers, which sinned before YHWH. …
(Barukh (Baruch) 2:30-35)
This is a prophecy of a great restoration that takes place before the return of Messiah, and which is centered outside of the land of Israel. As part of this restoration, these persons would “remember themselves.” Their identity had been lost, but now they realize that they are of the House of Israel. They will remember His Name (YHWH) and they turn back to his Torah!
This is where we are right now in Biblical prophecy! This is the time that the House of Israel is called out of Torahless Babylon. This is the time that that the House of Israel begins to remember who they are, turn back to Torah and remember the Name of YHWH! This is the time that YHWH will once again call the House of Israel “My people”! And I am delighted that this ministry has been on the cutting edge of this great last days work!
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Question… how do they “remember themselves”?
What will their heart and ears hear?
Is it just they understand the Torah or it it something else?
Sorry, Gentile questions 🙂